Mid-Day With Gary Goodan

Don't get me started on team mascots. I won't get anything else done for the rest of the day.

As his sports trivia question today, Mark asked what was the first professional sports team to have an insect as a mascot or team nickname

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Conrad softball coach Sandy Syverson told me that the Stillwater softball team from the Columbus area has officially forfeited its conference makeup game with Shelby for tonight. The two teams were tied at 5-1 going into that game, so the forfeit pushed the Coyotes to their first division softball title, and the number one seed for this week's Eastern Division tournament in Cut Bank

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The final week of the high school softball regular season will be a busy one for our local teams, and could serve as a preview for next week's divisional tournament in Cut Bank. The Stillwater team from Columbus is the only Eastern team not playing in Lewistown Friday and Saturday

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My house is back there, somewhere...

As you can see, I have two massive pine trees in my front yard, so I appreciated the information Toole County Extension Agent Alice Burchak shared on her Extension Minute in the noon hour Monday

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The Montana Senior Olympics is coming to Great Falls again this year. The games are open to individuals 50 years of age and over, and you don't have to run forty miles per hour or powerlift a car to be good enough to participate! Sports include archery, bowling, golf, horseshoes, racquetball and table tennis. There are also more Olympic-like sports: bask

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After a discouraging weekend, our softball teams get right back on the field in Conrad. Cut Bank will play the Cowgirls this afternoon at 4:30, while Shelby and Conrad will battle at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon, with a JV game to follow

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Because of last night's rains, the Conrad Invitational softball tournament has effectively been washed out. I'm told the Stillwater team made it just a few miles out of Columbus before they turned back

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The Conrad Invitational softball tournament is this weekend, and sure enough, the forecast says rain and snow possible with highs in the 40s. Nobody's surprised.  This is such a good tournament, well run at a great facility, and I can only remember one or two years when they had two days of pretty good weather

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